Blog – Political education
Here you can find our current articles from our department for political education. In addition to articles on the subject “On This Day in History”, you can find everything about political education here. If you have your own suggestions, comments or ideas for projects, please contact politik@asta.rwth-aachen.de.
On this day in history: Attack on Guernica
To this day, the 1937 painting by Picasso “Guernica” is considered one of the most powerful denunciations of the fascist war and the crimes committed in Guernica.
On this day in history: November 9
On this day... 105 years ago: Following the Kiel Sailors' Uprising, which within a few days develops into a revolution that engulfs the entire empire, the republic is proclaimed in Berlin on November 9. As a "democracy without democrats", the Weimar Republic was...
On this day in history: Women’s National Team
67 years ago today, the first international match of the German women's national football team took place. In Essen, the German women won 2-1 against the Netherlands. The match took place unofficially because the DFB had banned women's football two years earlier....
On this day in history: Coup in Chile
50 years ago today, the Chilean military staged a coup against the socialist president Salvador Allende, who had been democratically elected three years earlier. A military junta led by Augusto Pinochet ruled the country as a dictatorship until 11 March 1990. ...
On this day in history: Racist riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen
31 years ago today, the attacks on the Central Reception Centre for Asylum Seekers and a residence for Vietnamese former contract workers in the so-called „Sonnenblumenhaus“ in Rostock-Lichtenhagen began. The pogrom is considered the most devastating racist attack in...
Panel discussion on health policy
On 16.05. at 17:30 the AStA is organising a discussion on health policy, which will take place at the Centre Charlemagne. With Claudia Moll as the federal government's care representative, Elvira Schwarz as a care worker active in ver.di and Dr. André Esser, who...
100 Years of the Republic – Turkey ahead of the Parliamentary and Presidential Elections 2023
The presidential elections in Turkey are coming up! This raises the hopes of many people for a progressive change in politics. The severe economic crisis, the terrible earthquake, the repression of critical journalists and brutal persecution of Kurds and other...
Schwerte? Schneider! A German Affair
At the end of April 1995, the Chancellor of the RWTH receives the self-disclosure of the former Rector Hans Schwerte. He admits to having lived under a false name since May 1945 and thus to having concealed his past in the Nazi regime as SS-Hauptsturmführer and head...
Statement regarding the discriminatory remarks of Professor Leupers
The university should be a place of constructive exchange, international cooperation, joint teaching and learning. This is not the case for all students, especially BIPoC, due to structural and institutional racism. We consider the post by Mr Leupers, professor...
Konrad Adenauer becomes the first Bundeskanzler
On this day 73 years ago, in 1949, Konrad Adenauer was elected the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. In the course of rebuilding Germany's democratic structures, he participated in drafting the Basic Law, among other things, and strengthened...